New Zone Compilation

Kalimdor Zones

Mount Hyjal (Preview, Official Preview)
Many sub-regions of the Firelands zone are actually located underneath Mount Hyjal and accessed via teleportation devices from above. They are all in various states of completion.
Levels: 80-82.
Current status: Finished, and available for testing.Sulfuron Spire
Current status: Finished, and available for testing.Firelands Hatchery
Current status: Finished, and available for testing.The Crucible of Flame
Current status: Finished, and available for testing.Firelands Forgeworks
Current status: Finished, and available for testing.Mount Hyjal Phase 1 (---)
Phasing map.
Map ID: 719.
Current State: Finished, and available for testing.

Uldum (Preview)
Levels: 84-85.
Current status: Unfinished, but available for testing.

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Eastern Kingdom Zones

Firelands (---)
Phasing map.
Outdoor phased raid. Concept maps place this in Mount Hyjal, but the curent map itself is just south of Dalaran's former location.
Map ID: 720.
Current state: Unfinished and will not be available for release.Firelands Terrain 2 (---)
Phasing map.
Map ID: 721.
Current state: Unfinished and will not be available for release.

Gilneas (---)
Ruins of Gilneas in EK.
Levels: 80-85.
Current status: Unfinished, but available for testing.

Tol Barad (---)
Unknown how Tol Barad will exist in EK currently.

Twilight Highlands ([http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/1657]Preview[/url])
Levels: 84-85.
Current status: Unfinished, and not available for testing.Twilight Highlands Dragonmaw Phase (---)
Phasing map.
Map ID: 736.
Current State: Finished, but not available for testing.

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Oh my oh my Booboo oille

I feel spoiled.

They really went all out on the Twilight Highlands.

Originally Posted by Ghostcrawler

You are correct that a lot of players moan about things being too easy without having seen the content personally. We definitely place less emphasis on their feedback than on people who have actually tried those encounters.

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These are beautiful, and it's actually kind of cool that some of the pictures aren't fully textured. While Blizz doesn't like to show something until it's up to their standards, it's interesting to see what it looks like mid-design. The later Twilight Highlands and Skywall pictures especially.

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Seriously? You think it's just the same thing again? You HONESTLY think that this is "rehashing"? You are a very ignorant person if you do not realize the difference between rehashing and big changes while holding onto familiarity. The zones may not have new names, but 90% of them will look alot different, and all of them will have new and different quest lines.

Lich king the last good idea? Last time I checked, the ideas involved in this expansion predate the lich king. Actually, without the ideas in this expansion, warcraft wouldnt be where it is today, that includes the lich king.

Honestly, people need to know what theyre talking about before posting gibberish.

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Well you can drink your Kool-Aid and be happy with what your given. I came into Warcraft because I enjoyed Warcraft 2 and Warcraft 3. I was happy to see the all of the great characters they brought to life in World of Warcraft. And it was funny to see Kael'Thas come back if only for a Cameo in Sunwell. Then Naxx happened..
Then Anub.. Then Ony.. and now

Now instead of seeing the Dreadlord Homeworld or Deep into the Emerald Dream all I get to see are identical stained bedsheet horde huts everywhere. Old world mountains now have ooooh LAVA, and a host of old instances get set to Heroic.

Why is Blizzard stitching old bosses back together oven after we collected their heads, tongues etc. Because its cheaper and requires less work. The easily impressed seemed to soak it up.

If you aren't easily impressed I challenge you to post something that you think stands out from anything else you seen so far. Prove me wrong with pics not stupidity.

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Originally Posted by Lastlivingsoul

Well you can drink your Kool-Aid and be happy with what your given. I came into Warcraft because I enjoyed Warcraft 2 and Warcraft 3. I was happy to see the all of the great characters they brought to life in World of Warcraft. And it was funny to see Kael'Thas come back if only for a Cameo in Sunwell. Then Naxx happened..
Then Anub.. Then Ony.. and now

Now instead of seeing the Dreadlord Homeworld or Deep into the Emerald Dream all I get to see are identical stained bedsheet horde huts everywhere. Old world mountains now have ooooh LAVA, and a host of old instances get set to Heroic.

Why is Blizzard stitching old bosses back together oven after we collected their heads, tongues etc. Because its cheaper and requires less work. The easily impressed seemed to soak it up.

You're a moron. You think DEATHWING resurrecting his son and daughter, who we killed, is "rehashing old content"?

Dreadlord Homeworld? Are you smoking crack? A planet full of third-tier Burning Legion lackeys? Didn't we just do that expansion?

And do you know what the Emerald Dream is? It's AZEROTH tinted green and stripped of civilization.

This is an MMO. They HAVE TO update the old world at some point, because every new player and every alt is forced to go through an ever-aging world that doesn't stand up to scrutiny compared to the old one. Making the old world fun and inviting again is far more important than your desire to see stupid crap like the Nathrezim homeworld (or maybe an entire xpac about the Ethereals! yeah!).

Seeing as everyone who still likes the game is "drinking kool-aid", I have to wonder about why your enlightened self still bothers playing, let alone posting his moronic vitriol on tertiary sites.

Blizzard is not making "cheaper" content. They're making more varied content for all playstyles, using the manhours that can be gotten from a reasonably sized team of good developers. If you think you can increase the amount of content without sacrificing quality by simply writing more checks and hiring more coders until your development team includes thousands of people, then I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that your professional experience is limited to flipping burgers at McDonalds, because that kind of non-creative, mindless, assembly-line production is the only kind that will scale well by just throwing more money and labor at it.

When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons! What am I supposed to do with these?! Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!

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Honestly I'm not impressed. Rehashing old content with the same crystal textures does not impress me. It may impress most of the kids here but Blizzard's last good idea was Lich King and now well...

Its was a nice run while it lasted. Kids, Horde and Alliance, you can now watch Blizzard spoon feed you the same content you've seen over and over again without ever realizing it.

I lol'd at Lich King being their last -good- idea.

I realize we've being given some of the same bosses again and I love it. I've never had as much of an epic feeling raiding as I did on bosses like Ragnaros and Nefarian. And yes of course the game's graphics are the same. The majority of the players who play WoW are casual and have garbage computers that are like Dell/E-machine 2002 edition.

Cataclysm is looking to be the best expansion we've got which isn't a hard feat to get considering how bad WotLK was.